On Thu, 19 May 2005, David Blevins wrote:
> > I've been rolling an idea around in the back of my mind of having these
> > few "attributes" not stored in the gbean data itself but obtained from
> > some kind of properties gbean that gets them from a local file. I
> > don't have a strong opinion on whether this is likely to work or be a
> > good idea.
>
> > My main objection to non-xmlbeans based xml configuration code is that
> > I'm reasonably sure I will get stuck maintaining it. Based on past
> > experience, this is not something I want to do, ever, or ask anyone
> > else to do.
>
> I kind of think that the way we use xmlbeans is the reason you are stuck
> maintaining it. I think if we moved the data from xmlbeans or any other
> marshaller into a simple javabeans object tree, we might get more people
> working with the deployment code. I'd certainly be happy to volunteer.
>
> -David
>
